Word: tumorous
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...title of this baleful escapade refers to a thick, sticky, sugar-coated candy which the heroine gorges as she lies dying of a brain tumor while her husband watches. Both of them are always up to blithe little turns like that. During the course of their hopped-up marriage, he (Rutger Hauer) and she (Monique van de Ven) spend a good deal of their time giving the proles an eyeful. She likes riding on the back of his bike, affording a more than generous view of her bikini underwear, or wearing dresses with the kind of breakaway neckline generally favored...
Broken Wing. Their device is the revelation that the wife has a brain tumor. If the movie was forced in its coarseness at the beginning, the sentimentality with which it concludes is simply rancid. The wife begins to flirt with other men, and the husband delivers his rebuke by vomiting all over her. When she leaves him, he adopts a seagull with a broken wing, nursing it back to health. This serves to demonstrate that there is a gentle nature lurking beneath all that calculated vulgarity. In any event, they are reunited. He allows her to stuff herself with candy...
...certainly endured the beatings. During the summer before his freshman year at Stanford, he had a tumor removed from his neck and doctors thought he'd never be able to play again. Since then, he's had two operations on his knees, broken his ribs several times, and suffered other minor injuries...
...mind then," she recalls. "I knew there was something there, but I didn't want to touch it." Her doctor dissuaded her from further delay. In the past, frightened women often waited as long as a year before reporting a suspicious lump to their doctors; if the tumor was malignant, that delay was usually fatal. Now, says Robbins, as a result of widespread educational campaigns by the American Cancer Society, the average time between discovery and a visit to the doctor is down to 2½ months-still a dangerously long though obviously shrinking interval...
...last few weeks--the pardon of Nixon, the refusal of amnesty, Ford's defense of the CIA in Chile and appeals for aid to Thieu--show how selectively President Ford means this policy. But even at its best it wouldn't be enough. A patient with a malignant tumor doesn't worry first about wounds made by the surgeon's knife: those wounds will heal by themselves, when the tumor is gone. The slogans of the pre-Watergate era are still good enough for us, though they've taken on new shades of meaning: Bring the boys home...